Title: Flowers
Author: Jasmine Shigeru
Pairing: Martha Jones/The Tenth Doctor (John Smith)
Summary: The new man in her life loves to give Martha flowers to show her how he feels.
Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who nor do I wish I do. This is just for my entertainment and whoever wishes to read it. I am not making any profit from this and do not care to for that matter.
Rating: T
Flowers
By: Jasmine Shigeru
Prologue: Heather
I was always too busy for love. Too busy to even take romance too seriously. I had a few relationships in the past but I was too ambitious or the men did not care enough to make them last. I always wanted to be a doctor. I was going to be a doctor. It was the only thing I wanted for my life and love was just one of the things that would have to wait until I reached my goal.
My mother was proud. My father thought I should not give up. My brother wanted me to be in a happy, loving relationship. And my sister kept tricking me into blind-dates. So, family support for my career was low.
My friends encouraged me to wait. They knew how my last two relationships ended. I had been engaged twice. Once to Dr. Tom Mulligan and the second to Mickey Smith. They could not have been more different. Tom was serious and focused. Mickey was goofy and protective.
Tom and my timing were completely off. He was too busy being a doctor while I was too busy trying to become a doctor. We met at the hospital during a busy night. We were attracted to each other as soon as we met. We understood what the other wanted and we never let our busy schedules to affect our relationship. Tom and I dated for about a year before we became engaged. It was Tom's big heart that ended our relationship 4 months later. Tom was the type of guy who had to save the world. So much so, he married a woman in Africa, while still engaged to me, to save her and her two children from some mercenaries that terrorized her village. At first, I was angry but in the end, I could not stay mad at him. After some time, we became friends and he fell in love with his wife and her children.
I met Mickey a year later. I had volunteered to do a short student residency in New York, New York. I was being mugged one day and Mickey saved the day. He was British and a soldier. We hit it off right away. It was a whirlwind romance. One month we were dating, the next we were engaged and moving back to London. Another two months passed by without a hitch. The third and fourth months were kind of rock. By the fifth month, I had introduced Mickey to Tom and all of a sudden Mickey was feeling insecure in our relationship. He began to complain and ask me why we were together. He began not to trust me. He asked me where I was always. He became angry when I did not answer my phone when he called. It got so bad that I had to end things. I could not be with a man so focused on himself and his feelings.
Luckily, after my break up with Mickey, I had no time to focus on my failed love life. My brother got his girlfriend pregnant. They had a speedy marriage before the baby came. Then my parents got divorced. I was thrown into the middle of a war zone.
So, love, the last thing on my mind. What I did not know was six months later, love was coming my way.
END OF PROLOGUE.